Chapter 47: Bound

And I yearned to delight him, even if only from a distance. Every bit of me desired to give Emanuel exactly as he wanted, and so he claimed, needed.

“You are so pretty,” he confessed through the page, his photograph, his spirit, as I blushed furiously. “You have no reason to doubt yourself, and every man in his right mind would want you. I know that I haven’t been there like I have needed to be. But I swear to you that we are bound in one ...